Mother Says Hacker Used Baby Cam To Watch Her Breastfeed Newborn

A young mother in South Carolina shared a warning on Facebook after her baby monitor was taken over by a hacker. Jamie Summitt said that she was watching her son sleep in her bedroom when she noticed the lens on her camera started moving on its own. The camera's motion stopped when it faced her bed, which is where she breastfeeds her son every day. 

"All of a sudden I noticed out of the corner of my eye that the camera was moving...and it was panning over to our bed. The exact spot that I breastfeed my son every day. Once the person watching realized I was not in bed, he panned back over to Noah asleep in his bassinet."

Jamie and her husband Kevin rushed into their room and immediately unplugged the camera and stuffed it into a drawer. They called the police but said that nothing could be done because the person who had taken control of the camera had locked them out. 

"We called the cops and nothing can be done. Once we tried to access the app after the incident it locked us out, leading us to believe whoever was on the other end could hear us and that we had figured out what was going on."

Summitt warned anybody who has the baby monitor, which is made by Fredi and resembles the face of a dog, "throw it away RIGHT now."

She added that she feels "violated" and does not "want to go back into my own bedroom."

"I feel so violated. This person has watched me day in and day out in the most personal and intimate moments between my son and I. I am supposed to be my sons protector and have failed miserably. I honestly don’t ever want to go back into my own bedroom."